Hello and welcome to episode 13 of the Gray NATO, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and most certainly

watches.

I'm Jason Heaton.

And I'm James Stacy.

Today we're talking about automotive inspired watches.

From omega to the tag hoyers that we all know, Halda, Shopard, Autodromo, Blanchpont, Tudor,

Brightling, Promizioni, and so so many more.

Much like the idea of a pilot's watch,

an automotive watch can be almost anything.

I suppose where we start is somewhere near the beginning. Jason, what do you figure the starting point is for what we view as the automotive

racing watch archetype?

We're not necessarily looking for the first watch designed with a car in mind.

I don't think that would necessarily be interesting

I think where it gets interesting is is where this now very popular idea kind of put down its

roots where do you think that we land for that?

Yeah I think I think we can, I think neither of us would proclaim to be any sort of an expert on the

history necessarily of driving watches going all the way back to the 30s or 40s or something like that

where you get those angled watches like Vashore cells you know with the crown on

the on the corner that sort of faces the driver as you're holding the steering wheel that type of watch I think where it starts to get interesting is

probably late 50s early 60s you know I was about to kind of launch into kind of

of talking about the the early days of the Rolex Daytona or the the Hoyer

Carrera but I think we might have to go back to 1957 which was when Omega

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